Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-24
CRAZED BY Love

4 Piriabis Story from n arttn's FeTry-Daisy
Lamestsrs Watching and ygaitiDg for the
Object of Her Affection,
WHEELING,W w. VA, June lS.-The town
of Martins Ferry, on the opposite side Of
the river from this city, is now very much
excited over most pitiable case of IN
requited love, the inner details of which
have lust come 20 light. This uncontroll-
able passion exists in the bosom of Miss
Daisy Lamasters, g petite and pretty
Young lady, well known throughout
the town, ard the object of her
affections is George Scott, 8 young mailer
in good circumstances. Miss Lamss-
ters' passion has led her to abandon
home, friends and all else, and to-day she
Is en- outcasf in the most wretched cir
cumstanceS, existing no one knows how,
the butt Of the town and the daily subject
Of ridicule, Jokes and ieers. A year ago
Daisy LamasteTs had q comfortable
home, q host of friends, and moved in
the best social circles Of the town. Last
summer Daisy, while visiting st the
boarding house of Mrs. John Walters,
| first met George Scott, boarder at the
house. The girl, who had previously shown
marked aversion for the society of
gentlemen, at once became wildly in
fatuated with the young man, and the bet
ter to be near him left her home and
secured situation in the boarding house
as domestic. The girl then began to
lay siege to Scott's heart, and life soon
became burden to that gentleman.
Scott is OF rather jovial disposition,
and for q time looked upon Daisy's pas
sion as q very good Joke, but the girl
soon became such an intOlersble
nuisance to him that ne lett Mrs. Walters
house and quietly took up his abode in
another part Of town. For a few avs be
! had q respite, and then Daisy located
him, end his troubles we're renewal. She
would remain before the house, some
times for twenty-four hours a, stretch,
in the hope Of seeing him, and in
2 week Scott had to make another move
Fer a week Daisy could not find him, and
the girls condition became such as to eX-
cite universal pity. With her once fine
clothing il tatters, hungry, soiled and
unkempt, she would pace the streets OF
the town Dy day and night, vainly search
ling for the object of her affections, and
! questioning every one she met. Finally,
she met him upon the streets, and over
whelmed him with terms of endesrment
Scott again succeeded in evsding her, end
kept from her sight, Oy the aid of friends,
during the entire winter, while Daisy
paced the stree il snow and cold and
rain, never Telinquishing her quest.
Friends and relatives had long since
ceased their efforts TO reason with her,
end her case was looked upon as hope
less. IL the early spring Baisy once
more succeeded in locating Scott at q
Mrs. Boyd's, and her conduct soon in
duced that lady TO appeal to Mayor Kel-
lar for relief. That official, by threaten
| ing Imprisonment, succeeded in inducing
the girl to cease patrolling the front OF
! Mrs. BoYd's house, but the girl, not TO
be baked, mapped out beat embracing
several squares, and at least half a mile
| long, ana this she would 90 over as often
as twenty times day, stopping for few
moments at each of half dozen points
which commanded a view Of Mrs. Boyd's
house. For month past the Door girl,
worn almost to a SHADOW, and tanned as
black as a mulatto by exposure to the
sun, has tTamped back ana forth over
this beat. Sometimes she carries bunch
Of flowers, which she tells passers-by are
Cor Scott, and often tears are seen chasing
| each other down her face as she tTudges
along.
Twice Scott has been gosded into
striking the girl, for which he has been
fined by the town authorities, and two
days ago Daisy was arrested on techni-
cal case of assault, but she is again 1T
liberty pacing her half mile best with her
quick, nervous tread, an object OF uui-
versaI pity. The case is a most peculiar
one, and many attempts have been made
to end the girls fascination, but so far
| they nave been Of no avail, and the popu-
lar expectation is that some day Daisy
will be found dead upon the street.